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Takafuji Private Academy is a huge school, it has prodigious students and ton of clubs as places for students to expand their hobbies and skills. No need to doubt there must be some clubs with lazy members in it, rarely to join event nor participate in everyday club activities. Then, here is Food Research Club/FRC (食品研究部), abbreviated to Shokken (ショッケン), as concern of the story. The members of FRC do nothing but only slacking off even if it gets fund given by the school. This FRC is threatened by the next strong candidate of student council president whose proposes to eradicate certain unbeneficial clubs if she get elected. Therefore, Yuuki Oojima, our hero who doesn't want his club to get wiped out, makes a move to stand as opponent of this next candidate, Satsuki Shinonome, in the election. What kind of battle they will have there? There are some tainted-truths concealed behind the election. It isn't just a plain election...


With such potential by its 12 eps, the anime was worth watching than few other anime series with the same genres. It might sounds weird how come the school life anime series like KoiChoco can turn into an amusing story if its compared with other common school life animes. KoiChoco involves some politic aspects, it made us explore the fight of characters in the election. Begins from a simple-minded intention to only keep the club running and able to get budget, a penny-in-line wish paves the way to intrigue behind the election. That's how the show captivated audience.

Eventhough I mentioned politic aspects before, the show won't make us suffer from serious actions related to pure political activity. Tricky characters do their job perfectly for the show. KoiChoco doesn't focus on election only but the relationship amongst them too. The election problem still keep on track with the plot to reinforce each characters bond one to another. Since there are few characters, on the top of that minor characters appear quite much, the development characters weren't felt much better than the major characters itself. Their emotions are involved, such as love, discomfort, fear, and concern, but with less development.

I like bright colour and soft shading and the line, it's quite thinner and made characters movement looks more flexible. Overall, this show had good visualization, it's more than just decent. You can love its art, feel the depth of beauty from its intensifying colours. I attached to this show in the first place because of its visualization then fell in love with its story.

One of my favorite parts of KoiChoco is its music, includes the theme songs, insert songs, and compatible seiyuu. Annabel is sung the OP theme, Signal Graph (シグナルグラフ). It has melodious tone, its soothing tones are sweet, as well as the ED theme Kaze no Naka no Primrose (風のなかのプリムローズ) by Ceui. I can enjoy my supper with these two as backsound of my deserted time.

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Pros:
Nice visualization, match with its seiyuu. Nice combooo~
Story is worth to watch omnomnom

Cons:
in-depth development (for characters) needed